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dialectician|ˌdaɪəlɛkˈtɪʃən|
[a. F. dialecticien (Rabelais, 16th c.), f. L. dialectic-us dialectic a.: see -ician.]
1. One who is skilled in dialectic; a master of argument or disputation; a logician.
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xix. 155 According to the Dialecticians. a1751Bolingbroke Author. in Relig. xli. (R.), An art that..might help the subtile dialectician to oppose even the man he could not refute. 1791S. Parr Seq. to Print. Paper (R.), The great poetical dialectician [Dryden]. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. iv. 218 The terseness or lucidity which long habits of literary warfare..have given to some expert dialecticians. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. vi. 73 For none but a clever dialectician Can hope to become a great physician. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. v. 287 They were acute dialecticians, and rarely blundered in what is termed the formal part of logic.
2. A professed student of dialects.
1848Clough Bothie, Lindsay the ready of speech, the Piper, the Dialectician..Who in three weeks had created a dialect new for the party. 1882Miss Powley in Trans. Cumbld. & Westmld. Antiq. Soc. VI. 272 However well established [his] opinion among dialecticians may be. |